Hey all.
Is there a way to make the myBB system auto back up every x days/x hours? Or send a backup to email or something?
Was curious...
Thanks.
Your best bet would be a cron job, since MyBB doesn't back up plugin data*.
*To my knowledge
The database backup task will backup the entire database, default tables and plugin tables.
Great, so ive set it to backup every thurs. Will it save my users/post data? And also, is it a useful tool because if the server im on goes down (or something catastrophc...), isnt my data stored on in the same place?
Yes, it backs up everything that's in the database.
These backups are stored in the ./admin/backups/ folder, so if the server is inaccessible or something then these won't be accessible either, you should still make sure to download backups to your computer every so often.
Fantastic help as always. Thanks Matt.